In their words
“When the president vetoes the bill – as he has repeatedly promised to do – everyone will see just how subservient this administration is to Amerca’s anti-gay industry.”
Executive Director Matt Foreman, of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Inc., calling on the U.S. Senate to pass a stand-alone federal hate crime bill covering sexual orientation and force a showdown with President Bush.
“It’s a big deal. It’s a very big deal.”
– American University law professor Daniel Marcus, who served as general counsel for the Sept. 11 commission, suggesting that the CIA’s destruction of videotapes of harsh interrogation of al-Qaida suspects could constitute obstruction of justice.
“Our dollar is doing so well against your dollar that most of us took advantage of it.”
– Tour organizer Liz Greening, one of 42 Canadian women who came from Edmonton to shop in Spokane, marking a shift in the currency imbalance that used to send Americans north on bargain-hunting excursions.
“Dick Cheney is still a war criminal. Hillary Clinton is still Satan. And I’m going on the radio.”
– Radio personality Don Imus, returning to the air after an eight-month hiatus triggered by racially insensitive comments he made on the air about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
“If the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, you get a fee.”
– Angry consumer Dennis Kocik, of Charlottesville, Va., criticizing banks for luring people into credit card arrangements that have multiple financial traps in the fine print.
“I’m just a doctor who wants to help Marines. I’m not trying to change the world.”
– California physician Bill Krissoff, 61, who joined the Navy Reserve in tribute to his son, a Marine who was killed in action in Iraq.
“We’ve gone from horrific levels of murder to very bad, which is an improvement but not a reason to celebrate.”
– Columbia University Professor Richard Garfield, putting a recently declining pattern of Iraqi civilian fatalities in perspective.
“I refuse to be treated like cattle, and I refuse to be part of a communist regime.”
– Native Israeli Cecilia Goldberger, now living in Venezuela, protesting early morning get-out-the-vote tactics that followers of President Hugo Chavez wrongly thought would help him win a critical constitutional election Dec. 2.